Special 296 Taiwan Stream Birds Postage Stamps (1991) (D296)

Stamp SN : D296
Stamp Name : Special 296 Taiwan Stream Birds Postage Stamps (1991)
Stamp Cat Standard : Special Stamps
Stamp Cat : Birds
Issue date : 1991-08-24
Dimension of stamps(mm.) : 30x40
Printer : China Color Printing Co. Inc., R.O.C.
Sheet composition : S296.1-296.10 10×4
Process : Deep etch offset
Paper : Locally-made mat finished,
Perforation : 13 1/2
Designer : Lin Pan-sung

To help our citizens to know and to love our indigenous wild birds, so as to protect their habitat, this Directorate released a set of postage stamps featuring these birds in the streams. The set consists of ten 5.00 stamps. The ten species of birds taken as the motifs are： Formosan Whistling Thrush Myiophoneus insularis, Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii, Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax, Little Egret Egretta garzetta, Plumbeous Water Redstart Rhyacornis fuligiosus, Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri, Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea, Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis and Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba.